{{Short description|Senegalese fashion designer}} {{Infobox person | name = Oumou Sy |image = OumouSy.jpg |image_caption= Sy (center) at the Metissacana Cafe during a fashion show in tribute to Léopold Sédar Senghor for the Dakar Biennale 2006. | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1952}} |birth_place =Podor, Senegal | occupation =Fashion Designer }}

'''Oumou Sy''' (born 1952 in Podor, Senegal) is a Senegalese fashion designer frequently referred to as "Senegal's Queen of Couture".<ref name="independent">{{Cite web |date=2006-12-01 |title=Art of Africa: The 50 best African artists |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/art-of-africa-the-50-best-african-artists-426441.html |access-date=2023-06-23 |website=The Independent |language=en}}</ref><ref name="CC-Portrait">CulturCooperation, "Portrait", op. cit.</ref> She designed the wardrobe for the Senegalese singers Baaba Maal and Youssou N'Dour,<ref name="CC-Portrait" /> and has won various awards at international film festivals for her costume designs.<ref name="CC-Portrait" />

In 1998, Sy was one of the three African fashion designers to win the Principal Prince Claus Award.<ref>''Trouw'' (10 December 1998) [http://www.trouw.nl/tr/nl/5009/Archief/archief/article/detail/2591582/1998/12/10/Mode-kan-Afrika-ook-een-belangrijke-impuls-geven-Winnaars-negeerden-lokstem-van-Parijs.dhtml "Mode kan Afrika óók een belangrijke impuls geven"] {{in lang|nl}}</ref><ref>Prince Claus Fund, [http://www.princeclausfund.org/files/docs/PCFJournal2.pdf Journal #2] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129021311/http://www.princeclausfund.org/files/docs/PCFJournal2.pdf |date=2014-11-29 }}</ref>

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* {{Cite web |author = CulturCooperation |year = 2005 |title = Fashion made in Africa |work = Oumou Sy |url = http://www.culturcooperation.de/site/s3_3e.htm |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070928113305/http://www.culturcooperation.de/site/s3_3e.htm |archivedate = 2007-09-28 |url-status = dead }} * {{Cite web |author = CulturCooperation |year = 2005 |title = Portrait |work = Oumou Sy |url = http://www.culturcooperation.de/site/s3_3_1e.htm |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070928113259/http://www.culturcooperation.de/site/s3_3_1e.htm |archivedate = 2007-09-28 |url-status = dead }} * {{Cite web |author = CulturCooperation |year = 2005 |title = Gallery |work = Oumou Sy |url = http://www.culturcooperation.de/site/s3_3_2e.htm |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070928113311/http://www.culturcooperation.de/site/s3_3_2e.htm |archivedate = 2007-09-28 |url-status = dead }}

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==External links== {{Commons}} * {{in lang|fr}} [https://oumousy.com/ Oumousy.com] – Official website * {{in lang|fr|en}} [http://www.visavis.tm.fr/oumou/oumou_sy.htm Comite International de soutien à Oumou Sy] (International Support Committee for Oumou Sy) – Summary of 2001's jailing over a Libyan/Senegalese affair * {{IMDb name|0842928|Filmography of Oumou Sy as costume designer}} * {{in lang|fr}} "Oumou Sy" at the French Wikipedia – large article, links to be scoured * [https://fashion-history.lovetoknow.com/fashion-clothing-industry/fashion-designers/oumou-sy Oumou Sy | Love to know] * [https://www.si.edu/object/siris_sil_750094 Smithsonian catalogue]

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